Frank Miller's Sin City (the movie)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

I thought Sin City was tacky and bloated. And not a credit to noir.

You can't think of it as just film noir. It's a comic book done in a film noir style. Of course it's tacky and bloated...it's a comic book.

I was surprised at how well I enjoyed this. I generally have little tolerance for cheese, but when it's done in SUCH a stylized manner, I am much more forgiving. Like Tank Girl. Cheesy as all hell, but the whole think looked and felt like a comic book, so totally expected. I contrast those with Spiderman 2 which probably had fewer corny lines than Sin City, but they stuck out so much more to me because it seemed to be trying so hard to NOT be corny in so many other aspects of the movie.

Like CP, I thought it started to drag a little. Once they went back to the other story line, it just seemed to go on forever. And I kept expecting the story lines to tie in a little more than they did. For example, when Marv showed up at Nancy's apartment, he mentioned that she was endebted to him for saving her from some thug. So when they went back in time and we see nancy again, I was totally expecting Marv to get involved somehow. In the end, I understood that there was no attempt to really tie the stories together, that the whole point was that they were just tangentially related by all taking place in the same city, but in the midst of it, it really felt like they were going to tie together much more cohesively, so I felt a bit let down when they didn't.

But beyond that, I thought it was great.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

You can't think of it as just film noir. It's a comic book done in a film noir style. Of course it's tacky and bloated...it's a comic book.

Fair enough. Perhaps my problem is, instead, that I don't like the comic book medium. Though I've read comic books that didn't seem so terribly pleased with their own coolness. That didn't seem so "by fanboys, for fanboys." Such things, like fanfiction, sometimes seem puzzling to outsiders.

I prefer that one idea or concept or story is adapted from one medium to another, I want it to be using that medium for a reason. If it's a play adapted to a film, I want it to use what film has to offer; I don't want it to seem too much like a play. I guess the same goes for Graphic Novels. This didn't do it for me. But, hey, strokes/folks.